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Leonidas Merion Lawson was born in Nicholas County, Kentucky, to the Rev. Jeremiah Lawson, a native of Virginia, and Hannah Chancellor.
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Leonidas Merion Lawson was born in Nicholas County, Kentucky, to the Rev. Jeremiah Lawson, a native of Virginia, and Hannah Chancellor.
His early education was obtained from his father's instruction and from the primary school of what afterward became Augusta College. Beginning the study of medicine at the age of eighteen under a thoroughly incompetent preceptor, he so far overcame this handicap that two years later he passed the examination before the licensing board of the first medical district of Ohio at Cincinnati. Later he took a course at Transylvania University and was given the degree of M. D. in 1838.
After his studies, Lawson settled for medical practice in Mason County, Kentucky. He removed to Cincinnati in 1841 and the following year he founded the Western Lancet which he conducted until 1855. For one year (1844) he also edited the Journal of Health.
Following a winter spent in study at Guy's Hospital in London and in Paris, he moved to Lexington in 1845 to fill a teaching appointment at Transylvania University. In 1847 he returned to Cincinnati to accept the chair of materia medica and pathology in the Medical College of Ohio. In 1853 he was transferred to the professorship of principles and practice of medicine. He went to Louisville in 1854 where he gave two courses of lectures in the Kentucky School of Medicine, returning to Cincinnati in 1856. Again in 1859 he left to fill the chair of clinical medicine at the University of Louisiana, but after one year he returned to the Cincinnati school as professor of the theory and practice of medicine, a position he occupied until his death at the early age of fifty-one.
Although he was a subject of tuberculosis, he continued his duties up to within a month of the end. Many of the most profound students of tuberculosis have been victims of the disease and the later years of Lawson's life were occupied with the preparation of his treatise on Phthisis Pulmonalis which appeared in 1861. Other writings include monographs on cholera and pneumonia, and several addresses introductory to the college courses. Lawson was a forceful and pleasing lecturer, wholly devoted to his teaching and professional duties. His portrait taken in his later years shows a long thin serious face already marked by the inroads of disease.
Lawson was the founder of the Western Lancet, a weekly American medical journal. His most valuable work was "A Practical Treatise on Phthisis Pulmonalis: Embracing Its Pathology, Causes, Symptoms and Treatment". It was as complete and accurate as anything on the subject up to that time, showing remarkable knowledge of the literature of the disease. It had a long and popular vogue as a college text.
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Lawson was twice married. His first wife was Louise Cailey of Felicity, Ohio, who died in 1846 leaving three daughters. He later married Eliza Robinson of Wilmington, Delaware, who with two sons and five daughters survived him.